Private letter (P.Duk.inv. 98)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Private letter, [1st cent. A.D.]
Author: Sarapion (From the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), 1st cent.
Subject: Diodoros (From the Arsinoite Nome, Egypt), 1st cent.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --Fayyum --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Personal correspondence --Egypt --Fayyum --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, lower part is broken
	off ; 9 x 13 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 8.4 x 12.8 cm.
	9 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; the address
	written along the fibers on the verso in large letters.
	Upper margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin of 1.5 cm.; right
	margin of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 98 was formerly P.Rob.inv. 3.
	Private letter from the Arsinoite Nome (modern name:
	Fayyum), Egypt. Sarapion asks Diodoros to use his
	brother Sarapion as a go-between.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
Publications: Willis, William H. and John F. Oates.
	"Three Robinson Papyri." Bulletin of the American
	Society of Papyrologists 16(1979): 140-142 (plate 3).
        See also SB xvi, 12322.

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